Rumor Has It

Politico is reporting that Henry Waxman wants the top spot at Energy and Commerce, and will fight John Dingell to get it. That leaves a hole at the top of Oversight and Government Reform; the senior Democrat is Edolphus Towns of New York. It also gets into thorny questions of what the Committee's agenda will be in the next Congress, since Democrats will be less interested in investigating a nascent Obama administration than they were in digging up dirt on Bush & Co.